China's domestically made C919 passenger jet takes off during the 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. China is displaying its latest generation fighter jets and civilian aircraft this week as it looks to carve a larger role for itself in the global arms trade and compete with Boeing and Airbus. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





A worker in protective clothing transfers foods to a barricaded neighborhood locked down for health monitoring following a COVID-19 case detected in the area in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. Authorities are trying to restore a sense of normalcy while sticking to a “zero-COVID” strategy that locks down neighborhoods when any virus cases are found and quarantines everyone arriving from overseas in hotels for seven to 10 days. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask closes her liquor store along with a shuttered traditional medicine clinic which is located near a neighborhood locked down area for health monitoring following a COVID-19 case detected in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A worker in protective suit holds a fan with the health check QR code talks on her phone at a coronavirus testing site displaying the words “Fight the epidemic” in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask leans on a display board as he rests near masked women who practice with fans at a public park in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask takes part in a dance at a public park in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Tourists visit an art installation of colorful umbrellas on November 10, 2022 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A delivery courier places a package in a customer storage locker outside a residential community in Beijing, Friday, November 11, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A delivery courier unloads packages near parked carts for other delivery companies along a street in Beijing, Friday, November 11, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A woman waits for a bus at a bus stop next to an advertisement for Tmall's Singles' Day sale in Beijing, Wednesday, November 9, 2022. China's biggest online shopping festival, known as Singles' Day, is typically an extravagant affair as Chinese e-commerce firms like Alibaba and JD.com ramp up marketing campaigns and engage top livestreamers to hawk everything from lipstick to furniture as they race to break sales records of previous years. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A worker in a protective suit guides people to scan health QR code at a nucleic acid test booth for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Beijing, China on November 11, 2022. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





People wearing face masks stand at a park overlooking the Forbidden City in Beijing, Saturday, November 12, 2022. Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China's southern metropolis of Guangzhou was ordered to stay home Saturday to undergo virus testing and a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask takes a smartphone photo at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Saturday, November 12, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask walks at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Saturday, November 12, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A girl wearing a face mask holds leaves that have fallen from trees at a public park in Beijing, Saturday, November 12, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks walk at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Saturday, November 12, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on November 13, 2022 shows an aerial view of Beiling Park after snowfall in Shenyang, in China's northeastern Liaoning province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





An aerial view shows residential and commercial buildings in Hong Kong on November 14, 2022. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)





A worker in protective suit collects a sample from a woman at a coronavirus testing site inside a residential compound in Beijing, Tuesday, November 15, 2022. China's ruling party called for strict adherence to the hard-line “zero-COVID” policy Tuesday in an apparent attempt to guide public perceptions after regulations were eased slightly in places. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A representative from Sotheby's Hong Kong holds up the Golden Canary diamond in Hong Kong on November 15, 2022. The Golden Canary diamond (303.10 Carats) is expected to fetch at least US$ 15 Million at Sotheby's New York this December. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)